Who Was Alive

Ignatius of Loyola

Spanish Catholic priest and theologian

Born 1489–1493 · died 31 July 1556

Who was alive at the same time as Ignatius of Loyola?

  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. Leonardo da Vinci
  3. Vasco da Gama
  4. Erasmus
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. Albrecht Dürer
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus
  8. Michelangelo
  9. Thomas More
  10. Ferdinand Magellan
  11. Raphael
  12. Martin Luther
  13. Hernán Cortés
  14. Mimar Sinan
  15. Ignatius of Loyola
  16. Jacques Cartier
  17. François Rabelais
  18. Suleiman the Magnificent
  19. John Calvin
  20. Michel de Montaigne
  21. Elizabeth I of England
  22. Akbar
  23. Miguel de Cervantes
  24. Giordano Bruno
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When Ignatius of Loyola died, Michelangelo was 81, Elizabeth I of England was 22, Akbar was 13, Jacques Cartier was 64 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 61.

Born during Ignatius of Loyola’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I of England, Akbar, Suleiman the Magnificent, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born 8 years after Ignatius of Loyola died, Galileo Galilei was born 8 years after Ignatius of Loyola died, Francis Bacon was born 5 years after Ignatius of Loyola died and Lope de Vega was born 6 years after Ignatius of Loyola died.

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  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  5. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  6. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  8. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Elizabeth I of England 1533 – 1603
  12. Vasco da Gama 1457–1469 – 1524
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  15. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  16. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  17. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  18. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  19. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  20. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  21. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  22. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  23. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  24. Charles V 1500 – 1558
  25. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
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